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on the pentagon side to figure out how to buy services smarter and better, so to me that's the real part of the -- you know, the equation that needs the volume raised and that's the solution of maintaining our national security strength rather than just these numbers, so my soapbox off. let's give someone else a chance to ask a question >> let me throw one more thing in for the colonel here since he brought it up, the personnel costs. the people in the pentagon, peter is absolutely right, have got to have a more open mind on dealing with a lot of this than they had. we were doing a study 20 years okay on the military medical establishment, and i was on the program, budget staff, officer in the program budget staff in the army, and it was obvious to my little group that this was going to be a cost driver that was going to really hurt us in the future. no one could see it at the time because the costs were not obvious if you just looked at the first layer, but when you adjusted for the fact that we were taken out, major medical facilities. we were taking out doctors and eliminating fa
on the pentagon side to figure out how to buy services smarter and better, so to me that's the real part of the -- you know, the equation that needs the volume raised and that's the solution of maintaining our national security strength rather than just these numbers, so my soapbox off. let's give someone else a chance to ask a question >> let me throw one more thing in for the colonel here since he brought it up, the personnel costs. the people in the pentagon, peter is absolutely right,...
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the pentagon has gone an enormous eating spree over the last decade and has grown enormous. and this conversation about what is it for has not taken place. yes, we haven't had a conversation among nato allies about why we should be cutting this or cutting that. but we also haven't had a conversation about why we ever spent this money in the first place. that i think is the question that we should be -- the conversation we should be having. right now, here in the united states, we have basically throw approaches to the obesity problem facing nato and u.s. spending. and the three options are basically this. and they were alluded to in the last panel, and i'll just go over them very briefly. essentially, the republicans have laid out various options for eating more. in other words, the house has offered a proposal to add $4 billion on top of what the pentagon has asked for. they have put forward an alternative to sequestration. i won't go into that. mitt romney says we should spend $2.1 trillion more over what the obama administration has laid out. $2.1 trillion more. not cutti
the pentagon has gone an enormous eating spree over the last decade and has grown enormous. and this conversation about what is it for has not taken place. yes, we haven't had a conversation among nato allies about why we should be cutting this or cutting that. but we also haven't had a conversation about why we ever spent this money in the first place. that i think is the question that we should be -- the conversation we should be having. right now, here in the united states, we have basically...
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the fact that pentagon can't be expected to deal with this problem by itself. there must be much more radical surgical solutions to this problem. it's not just a partisan thing. of course, you know, tom colburn, republican, rather conservative republican came out way proposal over the summer to cut $1 trillion in military spending. which i thought was quite remarkable. we, at the institute for policy studies where i work put out the unified security budget where we come up with a detailed list of not only the cuts that we think can be made without endangering the security. we have to repeat that. without endangering the security of the united states, but also where the money could be usefully applied to promote non-military approaches, to resolving conflicts. beefing up, in other words, various existing structures within the state department and other parts of the u.s. government. and, of course, i haven't heard anybody refer to the poll done recently, just a week ago, maybe, but a project for international policy, attitudes in several, and two other polling fi
the fact that pentagon can't be expected to deal with this problem by itself. there must be much more radical surgical solutions to this problem. it's not just a partisan thing. of course, you know, tom colburn, republican, rather conservative republican came out way proposal over the summer to cut $1 trillion in military spending. which i thought was quite remarkable. we, at the institute for policy studies where i work put out the unified security budget where we come up with a detailed list...
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so when it hit the pentagon, it was clear that we had been attacked. the only question, what was it? was it a truck bomb? was it an airplane? went out and down and went to see what it was. picked this up and brought it back. these are pictures of the presidents. when they get together, they agree to sign so many copies for each other. and president ford sent me these. >> greta: look, there is richard nixon, he didn't sign it. >> he did. he used ink that faded. >> greta: his is faded. >> same thing here. isn't that a nice composition? that's a pulitzer prize-winning photographer from vietnam. here's our place in new mexico. this is where we live. that's our donkey, mo. we don't use fancy names in our family. there is an iraqi ballot. there is a ballot, signed by karzai. this is a missile. an interceptor, a photograph. bullet hits a bullet. it can be done. picture of a pen used to sign one of the civil rights bills in the 1960s. and this is a pen that was used to sign the defense appropriation bill in 1976. >> greta: this is your office? >> it is. there
so when it hit the pentagon, it was clear that we had been attacked. the only question, what was it? was it a truck bomb? was it an airplane? went out and down and went to see what it was. picked this up and brought it back. these are pictures of the presidents. when they get together, they agree to sign so many copies for each other. and president ford sent me these. >> greta: look, there is richard nixon, he didn't sign it. >> he did. he used ink that faded. >> greta: his is...
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we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and that would give the president an opportunity to look more bipartisan in his cabinet, so that's an important reason why his name is being floated. there's been a lot of concern among republicans that he was not as loyal to his party as they would have liked to have seen. some comments with respect to iran that they disagreed with. some of the challenges during chuck hagel's time here, there are long memories here, and when you talk about the delay of making any announcements about cabinet positions, it does open up this space for the criticism to flow in. it's in part due to the tr
we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and...
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we're talking about audit the pentagon. because of hurricane isaac i'm not sure the message will get there but one of the messages that i will give to them is that republicans need to acknowledge that not every dollar is well spent or sacred in the military. we have to look for ways in every department of government. they think it is because he is cool. i am his kid. i can tell you it is not because he is cool. the idea of liberty is cool. it does not say anywhere in their -- what came out of these campaigns was a candidate who said something no one had heard. who said that we can have and should have limited constitutional government. as part of that message, we should be reluctant to go to war. we should not have a rash foreign-policy. we should be careful. another moment they called the ron paul moment was when he talked about lillback. i do not think anyone ever would have. [applause] the one thing that people still fail to grasp, so many fail to grasp as they say, that is where your enemies are saying. if you want to k
we're talking about audit the pentagon. because of hurricane isaac i'm not sure the message will get there but one of the messages that i will give to them is that republicans need to acknowledge that not every dollar is well spent or sacred in the military. we have to look for ways in every department of government. they think it is because he is cool. i am his kid. i can tell you it is not because he is cool. the idea of liberty is cool. it does not say anywhere in their -- what came out of...
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the pentagon was attacked. please join us in observing a moment of silence to remember those who perished. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, mr. secretary and distinguished guests good morning and thank you all for being here. my wife and i offer a special welcome to the families and friends of those we lost on these grounds 11 years ago today. one of them was chief warrant officer william ruth whose memorial bench of granite and steel sits in the last row in front of me seventh and from the far right. he served as a marine in vietnam flying helicopters. after the war he became a social studies teacher and joined the army national guard, serving in the first gulf war as a medevaced pilot. he was loved by his students. they were proud of his service and moved by his deep commitment to them and to our nation. one student said, he opened up my eyes and my heart to the world. many others inspired by his example became teachers, nurses, firefighters and
the pentagon was attacked. please join us in observing a moment of silence to remember those who perished. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, mr. secretary and distinguished guests good morning and thank you all for being here. my wife and i offer a special welcome to the families and friends of those we lost on these grounds 11 years ago today. one of them was chief warrant officer william ruth whose memorial bench of granite...
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in an historic first -- the president stood befooe reporters in the pentagon briefing room to announce his plan to cut the defense budget. obama says: "as we look beyond the warssin iraq and afghanistan, and the end of long-term, nation-building with large military footprints, we'll be able to eesure our security wwth smaller conventional ground forces." flanked by the defense secretary and joint chiefs, obama laid out the new priorities. the focus will shift toward the asia pacific away from ground wars toward air and sea power. the arry and mmrine corps will get smaller. the f-35 fighter jet production will be slowed, not stopped. military retirement and health benefits will be overhauled.ppnetta says: "there is no question that we have to make some tradeoffs, and that we will be taking as a resuut of that, some level of additional but acceptable risk in the budget plan we release next month. these were not easy choices." the strategy review released today indicates that for the first time since world war ii -- the pentagon will no longer plan to fight two large-scale ground wars sim
in an historic first -- the president stood befooe reporters in the pentagon briefing room to announce his plan to cut the defense budget. obama says: "as we look beyond the warssin iraq and afghanistan, and the end of long-term, nation-building with large military footprints, we'll be able to eesure our security wwth smaller conventional ground forces." flanked by the defense secretary and joint chiefs, obama laid out the new priorities. the focus will shift toward the asia pacific...
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no one has approached the mastery of the enormity and complexity of the pentagon. ultimately he is bearing his name. again, i quote the daring inventive and dominating, he could not sur mount the obstacle that came to define his career coping with the vietnam war. for all his achievements, his choices that let to the vietnam disaster will forever remain his enduring leg as. the purpose of the series as stated in the forward is to reflect a sharper focus on the secretary of defense and immediate staff contributing to the policy of the presidents under which they served, mcnamara and the burdens of vietnam achieves this goal and would argue it represents a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most tumultuous periods in history. they accompanied them to vietnam in the summer of 1997. while there for four days, we discussed with mostly lower level vietnamese and vietcong officials, major events 291961 and 1967. a full up to several conferences on the cuban missile crisis. a group oral history designed to elab rate of what we know about events and help
no one has approached the mastery of the enormity and complexity of the pentagon. ultimately he is bearing his name. again, i quote the daring inventive and dominating, he could not sur mount the obstacle that came to define his career coping with the vietnam war. for all his achievements, his choices that let to the vietnam disaster will forever remain his enduring leg as. the purpose of the series as stated in the forward is to reflect a sharper focus on the secretary of defense and immediate...
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>> did the pentagon have review? >> no, didn't have fop once i'm retired from active due any i don't have to submit it to the pentagon unless i use classified information. so i avoided using any classified information but a lot of stuff was declassified right after the war. a lot of stuff was a matter of public record. so i had a great deal of material. the best thing i had was this, any war i ever fought most of instructions were sent by message back and forth. so you have hard copy record of every decision made. because of where we are today most of the orders and instructions are seventh back and forth by secured telephone. it became apparent that we're not going have a record of the decisions made unless we have a record ourselves. any time i had a conversation i wrote down what i said and what is being said to me. i had someone in there who would write down every time i made a decision and he would log it into a private journal that we kept of every decision that was happening during the war. if it had not been
>> did the pentagon have review? >> no, didn't have fop once i'm retired from active due any i don't have to submit it to the pentagon unless i use classified information. so i avoided using any classified information but a lot of stuff was declassified right after the war. a lot of stuff was a matter of public record. so i had a great deal of material. the best thing i had was this, any war i ever fought most of instructions were sent by message back and forth. so you have hard...
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andas we transition out of the pentagon, this will be more simple. add to that, a complexities that behavioral health places. and you have ptsd and what's going back and reviewing and are we putting personnel to deal with this? this is complex, it's hard. it's problematic and it needs every single effort from top to bottom. >> listen, i share all of your frustrations, and my job is that we don't come here with more excuses and that we come here with action. >> i truly appreciate that comment. i want to work with you. all my efforts are at your disposal. we do a fantastic job of training on you are men and women to go into the service. we still today have not gotten this right in making sure that we transition back home. we have families and soldiers and airmen throughout the service who are really stuck in a process they shouldn't be stuck in. we've got to get this right and we've got it get it right now and wee
andas we transition out of the pentagon, this will be more simple. add to that, a complexities that behavioral health places. and you have ptsd and what's going back and reviewing and are we putting personnel to deal with this? this is complex, it's hard. it's problematic and it needs every single effort from top to bottom. >> listen, i share all of your frustrations, and my job is that we don't come here with more excuses and that we come here with action. >> i truly appreciate...
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this is a remarkable thing to witness, and i've seen many reviews in the pentagon before. it gives me a lot of faith, frankly, in our survey and military leadership to make sound decisions as these very difficult choices have to be made in the months and years ahead. no doubt those choices will involve some sacrifice. for example, as part of the total force, the reserve components will experience some and strength reductions commensurate with their active duty counterparts. in addition the department has to seek greater efficiencies and are basing infrastructure, rationalizing it to meet the needs of a small and more flexible force. and to ensure that we have the resources to invest in readiness and modernization. critical initiatives like this will require us to look beyond our narrow interests, the narrow interests of any particular office or department, state, region, party or branch of the armed forces. there are those who believe that we have lost the ability to do this year the process that generates a strategic guidance though gives me hope to think otherwise. i thi
this is a remarkable thing to witness, and i've seen many reviews in the pentagon before. it gives me a lot of faith, frankly, in our survey and military leadership to make sound decisions as these very difficult choices have to be made in the months and years ahead. no doubt those choices will involve some sacrifice. for example, as part of the total force, the reserve components will experience some and strength reductions commensurate with their active duty counterparts. in addition the...
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memo from acting director from the mortuary to dispose group f remains from the attack on the pentag pentagon. then august of 2002, there is a note about the remains. it seems like it is not just anecdotal. there is paper work that directed that these being incinerated. >> you can see where the paper work is and you can go and try to track it down. i am telling you that was not the focus of the panel. this focus of the panel was to look forward to see what was wrong and to correct what was wrong or make a forward looking sort of recommendation about what needed to be fixed. we did not spend a great deal of time and effort and energy looking into what you are talking about. next question. >> sir, i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry. we're going to the next question. it's my report, but it is not the focus of the report. >> the comments of retired army general john abazaid. this after an investigation by the air force which runs the facility at dover air force base in delaware finding some remains of military personnel were not handled in accordance with procedures. the air force acknowledging it disposed
memo from acting director from the mortuary to dispose group f remains from the attack on the pentag pentagon. then august of 2002, there is a note about the remains. it seems like it is not just anecdotal. there is paper work that directed that these being incinerated. >> you can see where the paper work is and you can go and try to track it down. i am telling you that was not the focus of the panel. this focus of the panel was to look forward to see what was wrong and to correct what...
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i a said on a number of occasions, the pentagon, the intelligence community believe that this legislation is vitally to the safety and security of our country. so before thanksgiving, we're going to finish the sports men's bill, we're going to have -- the republicans need to kill the cybersecurity bill. they've been following the lead of the chamber of commerce, which is an arm of the republican party anymore. it is just a front for the republican party. they spend huge amounts of money that they get from unknown sources to defeat democrats. they wasted their money this time, but that's the way it is. they are opposing this bill for not any logical reason. then we -- senator levin and mccain have asked to go to defense authorization. i think if this bill is as important as they say it is -- and they say it is important; i know how senator levin and senator mccain feel about it -- looks like they would clear away some of this stuff that's getting in the way. but that's where we are. i think it is religionly a bridge too far to complete the defense authorization bill before we leave but we
i a said on a number of occasions, the pentagon, the intelligence community believe that this legislation is vitally to the safety and security of our country. so before thanksgiving, we're going to finish the sports men's bill, we're going to have -- the republicans need to kill the cybersecurity bill. they've been following the lead of the chamber of commerce, which is an arm of the republican party anymore. it is just a front for the republican party. they spend huge amounts of money that...
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but as isa sylvester reports, pinteress ccmpaign trail to the pentagon pentagon that's realll cute. i need to re-pin that onethink of pinterest as an onllne bulletin board.. a place where you can "pin" cool pictures organized by categooies.. it's particularly popular among women. girls like to read fashion magazines and kind off fold in the pages that they like, and this jjst provides it on a website and its easier month.like twittter or users a facebook pinterest users can build a follooing... but it differs frrm those social media sites in that the content isn't fleeting. it stays put. one segment of the government leveraging pinterest... the pentagon.the army pinteresttboard - for example- shows family life in the military, boot amp pmagespinterest is also appearing on the political horizon.ann romney - wife of gop presidential candidate mitt romney- launched her pinterest boaad.this weee... her likes range from rrcipe foo pistachio cake to a love note mmtt romney left for her when he had just missed her at a campaign stop.it's very clear she's trying to be personal and convey em
but as isa sylvester reports, pinteress ccmpaign trail to the pentagon pentagon that's realll cute. i need to re-pin that onethink of pinterest as an onllne bulletin board.. a place where you can "pin" cool pictures organized by categooies.. it's particularly popular among women. girls like to read fashion magazines and kind off fold in the pages that they like, and this jjst provides it on a website and its easier month.like twittter or users a facebook pinterest users can build a...
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>>jonathan: we have significant breaking news from our pentagon producer, telling us that there is now a direct tip for u.s. and other nato troops to carry loaded weapons inside the wire. that means when they are on their base in afghanistan. normally they would carry a magazine in a pouch. now they are being told to keep their weapons loaded. that is a very significant development. it shows how much concern there is. rick: thank you, jonathan hunt. crews this dallas now have begun the air assault against the spread of the west nile virus which has killed more than a dozen people across that state. two twin engine planes taking off from the dallas executive airport. they are spraying chemicals over dallas county. the centers for disease control reports that half of this area's west nile cases are in texas. if this trend continues, 2012 could be the worst year not virus in state history. here is a look inside one of the aircraft. you can see a couple of large tanks on board, but the company in charge of the planes says they are expressing less than an ounce of chemical an acre less than
>>jonathan: we have significant breaking news from our pentagon producer, telling us that there is now a direct tip for u.s. and other nato troops to carry loaded weapons inside the wire. that means when they are on their base in afghanistan. normally they would carry a magazine in a pouch. now they are being told to keep their weapons loaded. that is a very significant development. it shows how much concern there is. rick: thank you, jonathan hunt. crews this dallas now have begun the...
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"outfront" on the story, cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> you don't think she's a little young for the hard stuff? >> washington says she's a killer. >> it's a hollywood spy thriller with as much oscar buzz as it has controversy. "zero dark 30" the story of the hunt for osama bin laden from the oscar winning powerhouse team of katherine bigelow and mark bowe recreates how it all happened, from the female cia analyst who finally figured out where he was hiding to the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed him. >> there are two narratives about the location of osama bin laden. >> reporter: the controversy? the obama administration has faced accusations it gave undeserved access to the film makers. in real life, everyone involved in the hunt for bin laden remains sworn to secrecy. but the film makers say they got firsthand accounts. they just won't say exactly how that happened. >> i think as a reporter you would understand we take protecting our sources and sort of the exact methodology of our sourcing pretty seriously, just in the same way if i asked you how exactly did you source that
"outfront" on the story, cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> you don't think she's a little young for the hard stuff? >> washington says she's a killer. >> it's a hollywood spy thriller with as much oscar buzz as it has controversy. "zero dark 30" the story of the hunt for osama bin laden from the oscar winning powerhouse team of katherine bigelow and mark bowe recreates how it all happened, from the female cia analyst who finally figured out where...
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does the pentagon say this was an act of war? >> reporter: the pentagon wouldn't go there. george little was asked that question during the briefing and he said he wouldn't get into quote legal characterizations, but it's the first time an american drone has ever been fired on by iranian aircraft fighter jets and it was in international waters. fit was 16 miles off the coast of iran. it's important to point out this was a classified mission that suggests that while the pentagon may say the was routine surveillance of the maritime straits, it was a classified mission. megyn: ambassador? your reaction. >> reporter: the iranians have gotten at least one other american drone. they claim they show it down we claim it landed by malfunction. they are obviously intending to show they are prepared to use force to brush us back. i think although the timing of this was before the election, i think there is something to the proposition that the iranians are trying to show to the united states that any use of military force against their nuclear program would not go unattended. megyn: t
does the pentagon say this was an act of war? >> reporter: the pentagon wouldn't go there. george little was asked that question during the briefing and he said he wouldn't get into quote legal characterizations, but it's the first time an american drone has ever been fired on by iranian aircraft fighter jets and it was in international waters. fit was 16 miles off the coast of iran. it's important to point out this was a classified mission that suggests that while the pentagon may say...
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and his departure from the pentagon in 1968, as much i think as lbj's march 31st speech of that year marked the glorious end of an era once bright with promise. as the war provoked increasingly nasty divisions in the united states, mcnamara became a target for critics from both left and right. unaware of his muted tightly constrained and largely internalized descent, doves viewed him as the technocrat as his blind faith in technology and statistics plunged the united states into a destructive quagmire. hawks, on the other hand, announced with growing venom his alleged refusal to give the military the freedom and the means to win a war, in their view, imminently winnable. in my experience, talking with veterans over the last 40 years, only the name jane fonda is likely to provoke more anger than that of robert mcnamara. the publication of his memoir in 1995, and his admission that in his words we were wrong, terribly wrong, ignited the war over the war yet again. for both sides once more raising the issue of how the secretary of defense could have stuck with a war he had come to see a
and his departure from the pentagon in 1968, as much i think as lbj's march 31st speech of that year marked the glorious end of an era once bright with promise. as the war provoked increasingly nasty divisions in the united states, mcnamara became a target for critics from both left and right. unaware of his muted tightly constrained and largely internalized descent, doves viewed him as the technocrat as his blind faith in technology and statistics plunged the united states into a destructive...
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no one, quote, has approached the mastery of the enormity and complexities of the pentagon. ultimate ultimately, however, he is done in by the war that came to bear his name. again, i quote, daring, inventive, dominating, he could not dominate the obstacle that came to define his career, coping with the vietnam war. and for all his luminous achievements, his choices that led to the vietnam disaster will forever remain his enduring legacy. the purpose of this series, as stated in the forward, is to reflect a new sharper focus on the secretary of defense and his immediate staff, to explain how they contributed to the larger national security policy of the presidents under which they served. mcnamara, clifford and the burdens of vietnam splendidly achieves this goal. it represents a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most tumultuous periods in history. a very brief postscript. i had the privilege of accompanying bob mcnamara in the to vietnam in 1997. we met with lower vietnamese and viet cong officials. major events between 1961 and '67. a follow-up this was
no one, quote, has approached the mastery of the enormity and complexities of the pentagon. ultimate ultimately, however, he is done in by the war that came to bear his name. again, i quote, daring, inventive, dominating, he could not dominate the obstacle that came to define his career, coping with the vietnam war. and for all his luminous achievements, his choices that led to the vietnam disaster will forever remain his enduring legacy. the purpose of this series, as stated in the forward, is...
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this is the pentagon's comfort zone and the world doesn't tend to be presented as neatly as that. secondly, i think this should be considered defense strategy step one because there will be more cuts coming undoubtedly from the debt and fiscal pressures that we're feeling now and will continue to feel from what we can tell. so there's phase one, and there'll be successive drawdowns over the next two, three, four years and they're going to have to change the strategy i think at a certain point. certainly the next quadrennial defense review begins a year from today, pretty close to it, will have to address additional fiscal pressures. third, more to your point, i think the strategy was a bit overmessaged regarding asia, asia, asia, the shift to asia, the pivot to asia. so while the document itself is very clear and a little more crisp on the other issues, i think it's been overmessaged and overplayed the shift to asia. that's having a real impact on european leaders' decisions. in some cases, it's a healthy impact, boy, is the u.s. not going to do everything all the time, everywhere
this is the pentagon's comfort zone and the world doesn't tend to be presented as neatly as that. secondly, i think this should be considered defense strategy step one because there will be more cuts coming undoubtedly from the debt and fiscal pressures that we're feeling now and will continue to feel from what we can tell. so there's phase one, and there'll be successive drawdowns over the next two, three, four years and they're going to have to change the strategy i think at a certain point....
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of course that is when the steep automatic spending cuts would slash budgets at the pentagon and other government agencies. let's bring in "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page and "the washington post" congressional reporter ed o'keefe. good morning to both of you and happy new year. >> good morning. >> same to you. >> the senate returns in about an hour. how close are they? what are you hearing? >> you know, i think it is conceivable that we'll have a new year's eve miracle and there will be a deal but i think the safe bet is against it. for this to happen in the next 14 hours you need to have no senator object to a majority vote, you know, any senator can start to filibuster and force the vote total up to 60 to continue working on any kind of deal they reach. and then you need john boehner to agree and house republicans to agree to bring it up in the same version or very similar version and i think the hurdles that have prevented us from getting a deal for two years are still there. so, i mean, we'll see what the next 14 hours brings but i wouldn't be too optimistic. >> if
of course that is when the steep automatic spending cuts would slash budgets at the pentagon and other government agencies. let's bring in "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page and "the washington post" congressional reporter ed o'keefe. good morning to both of you and happy new year. >> good morning. >> same to you. >> the senate returns in about an hour. how close are they? what are you hearing? >> you know, i think it is conceivable that...
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military, the pentagon, in coordination with the interagency wants it to happen. and some of those things are budget driven. they're going to try to save as much as they can realistically, but it's not going to be private agreements with russia or anything. that's just my opinion. >> all right. thank you. other questions? yes, sir, in the middle. bruce? thank you. >>> hi. i'm bruce mcdonald with the u.s. institute of peace. i think it's safe to say that within this room there's probably a pretty broad consensus in support of further reductions, and yet -- and to date our nato allies have been extraordinarily supportive of the new s.t.a.r.t. process. my question is it comes to the fact i'm imagining going forward and seeing levels go down substantially more, i guess i want to ask particularly dr. flockhart but of course other distinguished panelists as well, is there a point at which the u.s. extended deterrent, which i recognize, of course, is more than just nuclear weapons, our substantial capabilities are an important dimension of that, is there a point at which
military, the pentagon, in coordination with the interagency wants it to happen. and some of those things are budget driven. they're going to try to save as much as they can realistically, but it's not going to be private agreements with russia or anything. that's just my opinion. >> all right. thank you. other questions? yes, sir, in the middle. bruce? thank you. >>> hi. i'm bruce mcdonald with the u.s. institute of peace. i think it's safe to say that within this room there's...
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, and tom spoke, and dennis h hastert spoke, and then when we could look down and literally see the pentagon on fire. another example and -- well, the anthrax issue. after that happened, you can't imagine how that affected you, too. you had staff people who were exposed to it, and it was tom's office and pat leahy's office and we ended up meeting together, republicans and democrats in the dining room in the capitol talking about the threat and what that meant, and how to deal with it, and everything. there was, you know, a guarantee you there was no partisanship, and we were trying to figure out what to do with the situation. the other one that is a little lighter and one of my favorite ones is that i called tom after christmas after the house voted for impeachment and i was sick to my stomach of what we might have to go through and i did nont how not know how to do it, because it had not been done. i said, we have a problem. we have to figure out what to do with this. and we asked joe lieberman and slade gordon to get together to try to plan a way to get together with this. and they came up
, and tom spoke, and dennis h hastert spoke, and then when we could look down and literally see the pentagon on fire. another example and -- well, the anthrax issue. after that happened, you can't imagine how that affected you, too. you had staff people who were exposed to it, and it was tom's office and pat leahy's office and we ended up meeting together, republicans and democrats in the dining room in the capitol talking about the threat and what that meant, and how to deal with it, and...
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. >> expenditure for the pentagon beyond what the pentagon wants. >> wait a minute. do you think harry reid is presenting this with obama kind of pulling the ventriloquist string? in other words, this is a soak the rich, which is appealing he thinks to the general public, who are not in your class. and that is not only intrinsically unfair, it's undemocratic, it's unamerican, but it is also a tactic that obama is encouraging on the part of reid. >> he may be doing that. if i were to be tell you the -- what motivates this whole thing, our campaign contributions. that's the way i look at it. >> what do you mean by that? >> who will be gaithersburg the democrats enough money at this stage to combatted all the -- what this campaign is going to be looking like? which will be a one of a huge -- [overlapping speakers] >> he wants to pull the subdonations and the sublevel donations? >> no -- >> that's why mort, they're going from 250,000 to a million. they just -- all those people making between 250,000 and a million are voters! and they -- that's why harry reid is saying, l
. >> expenditure for the pentagon beyond what the pentagon wants. >> wait a minute. do you think harry reid is presenting this with obama kind of pulling the ventriloquist string? in other words, this is a soak the rich, which is appealing he thinks to the general public, who are not in your class. and that is not only intrinsically unfair, it's undemocratic, it's unamerican, but it is also a tactic that obama is encouraging on the part of reid. >> he may be doing that. if i...
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it failed and we're left with some automatic cuts fwhaed to the pentagon and elsewhere. but i think there's a good chance we could kind of see a replay of that situation. we're very likely again some kind of a split federal government next year. all three, the house senate and president are competitive race 37s it seems unlikely one party will win all three unless there's a wave. and i think the failure of the supercommittee speaks ill for this time. boehner said on tuesday, we're not going to be doing these kinds of gimmicks this time, which means they need to come to some kind of an agreement. >> as you look at where we were last year, i guess to summarize what this president was saying, the president saying we're not going to go through this again this year, congress, you've got to resolve this. and the speaker of the house saying we're not going to raise the debt limits without rereforms and tangible budget cuts. neither said really had any longlasting harm with the debate last summer. >> i think they both did. the thing was that harm was pretty evenly dispersed stwe
it failed and we're left with some automatic cuts fwhaed to the pentagon and elsewhere. but i think there's a good chance we could kind of see a replay of that situation. we're very likely again some kind of a split federal government next year. all three, the house senate and president are competitive race 37s it seems unlikely one party will win all three unless there's a wave. and i think the failure of the supercommittee speaks ill for this time. boehner said on tuesday, we're not going to...
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i was in the pentagon for six years. i don't have any idea what's going on in those states up the potomac river, one mile, two miles, three miles. big walls, big trees. and let's cut off aid to pakistan. when i see it, i will believe some evidence. until then, i don't know what is going on up the potomac river from the pentagon. anyone could be in there. how many years did it take to find this bolger. they finally find him out in california after decades in our own country. it's hard work and it's difficult, but we're doing the things that they need to right now. the egyptians got mad and people in the congress saying, cut off military aid to egypt. my goodness, the ones that know what they want is the muslim brotherhood and the salibas. i think it's hard in our country because we get worked up and we get worked up in the press how would you like to see a failed state? all those radicals with an intelligent organization, with taliban relationships and nuclear weapons. imagine where we would be. >> our time is rap bididly
i was in the pentagon for six years. i don't have any idea what's going on in those states up the potomac river, one mile, two miles, three miles. big walls, big trees. and let's cut off aid to pakistan. when i see it, i will believe some evidence. until then, i don't know what is going on up the potomac river from the pentagon. anyone could be in there. how many years did it take to find this bolger. they finally find him out in california after decades in our own country. it's hard work and...
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i was in the pentagon for six years. i don't have any idea what's going on in those states up the potomac river, one mile, two miles, three miles. big walls, big trees. i don't know who is in there and i don't know what's happening and i know i don't know. now, is it possible that someone in pakistan knew? sure. does anyone have any evidence that they did? not that i have heard. so what's happening? people are rushing to judgment. here is pakistan. you know, by golly, they are not helping us as much as they should. they got mad. they stopped us, our ability to transit their country, to support afghanistan. they started saying we can't use this base for this, that, or the other thing. they started threatening, they can't use overflight rights. what do we say? let's cut off military aid to pakistan. you get this action, reaction, action, reaction, rush to judgment. by golly, when someone can come and tell me that they have hard facts that the pakistani government, i don't mean some pakistani, but the pakistani government,
i was in the pentagon for six years. i don't have any idea what's going on in those states up the potomac river, one mile, two miles, three miles. big walls, big trees. i don't know who is in there and i don't know what's happening and i know i don't know. now, is it possible that someone in pakistan knew? sure. does anyone have any evidence that they did? not that i have heard. so what's happening? people are rushing to judgment. here is pakistan. you know, by golly, they are not helping us as...
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. >> another black eye for the pentagon. the u.s. army has launched a criminal investigation after photographs surfaced of american paratroopers allegedly posing next to dead bodies in afghanistan. here is danielle nottingham with the response now from the pentagon. >> the los angeles times published two photographs that appear to show u.s. troops posing with dead insurgence in afghanistan. in one picture afghan security forces and u.s. troops are seen holding the mangled legs of a dead taleban suicide bomber. the paper says an unnamed para to perform the second airborne division provided 18 photographs that were taken in 2010. the army has launched an investigation. >> that behavior that was depicted in those photographs absolutely violates both our regulations, and more importantly our core values. this is not who we are. and it certainly is not cool we represent. >> the latest incident surfaces at a sensitive time in u.s. afghan relations. in recent months the obama administration has dealt with a series of incidents that have spa
. >> another black eye for the pentagon. the u.s. army has launched a criminal investigation after photographs surfaced of american paratroopers allegedly posing next to dead bodies in afghanistan. here is danielle nottingham with the response now from the pentagon. >> the los angeles times published two photographs that appear to show u.s. troops posing with dead insurgence in afghanistan. in one picture afghan security forces and u.s. troops are seen holding the mangled legs of a...
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the pentagon is being hypocritical. i support women's roles in combat, support of whatever role they choose to be in. >> colorado spring, richard, a republican. good morning, sir, you're on the air. >> caller: yes, in 2009, politico reported on a soldier's load and a motorman can have to carry up to 142 pounds when you have their protective vest on, their rifle, mortar rounds, stuff like that. inthink if you're going to talk about this, i think you should be suited up just like somebody in combat should be and show how feasible it is for women to actually move and fight, you know, if they're going to be trying to carry what's the required load. it's pretty ridiculous. a lot of women that weigh much more than 142 pounds and have the strength to do it. so get somebody who can't move, can't help anybody. if somebody got wounded, they couldn't carry them out of combat. you've got a useless body there on the field. >> richard from colorado springs. similar sentiment by bill beatty on twitter. strength, physical conditioning
the pentagon is being hypocritical. i support women's roles in combat, support of whatever role they choose to be in. >> colorado spring, richard, a republican. good morning, sir, you're on the air. >> caller: yes, in 2009, politico reported on a soldier's load and a motorman can have to carry up to 142 pounds when you have their protective vest on, their rifle, mortar rounds, stuff like that. inthink if you're going to talk about this, i think you should be suited up just like...
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another major security breach but pentagon officials say no explosives were found in the vehicle and secretary panetta went on with his schedule, which includes a face-to-face promise to the afghan president hamid karzai for a thorough investigation of the shooting rampage blamed for the deaths of 16 afghan civilians this week. military officials confirm the suspected gunman, an army staff sergeant, was flown out of afghanistan tonight heading for another detention facility in kuwait, and that afghan officials were alerted to this transfer beforehand. this and other tensions have brought calls for a quicker withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan. but at the white house today after talks with the british prime minister david cameron, president obama insisted progress is being made and insisted the timetable in place which would bring all troops home by the end of 2014 was the right one. >> i don't anticipate at this stage that we're going to be making any sudden addition al changes to the plan that we currently have. we have already taken out 10,000 of our troops. we're slated
another major security breach but pentagon officials say no explosives were found in the vehicle and secretary panetta went on with his schedule, which includes a face-to-face promise to the afghan president hamid karzai for a thorough investigation of the shooting rampage blamed for the deaths of 16 afghan civilians this week. military officials confirm the suspected gunman, an army staff sergeant, was flown out of afghanistan tonight heading for another detention facility in kuwait, and that...
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i know, generally speaking, people look and see a military guy from the pentagon with a power point presentation and that's created a fair amount of problems around the world. i assure you, this is a very easy presentation to get through and i'll do this in about ten minutes but i do like to use a couple of images. as i was saying to my very good friend, there is no part of the government in which the images frankly are more evocative than in the world of development. and so what i'll do today is just show you some of the challenges of thinking about development in a conflictual situation. then i'll try and talk a little about some of the -- what i hope are relatively creative ways we're thinking about it at the department of defense. so if i could have the first image. this is libya, which many of the people in this room were involved in. and i would offer this as an example of attempting to do humanitarian work trending toward development in a zone of actual open, well-known conflict. very, very difficult. as many of the practitioners here know, we saw about 1 million refugees in this situatio
i know, generally speaking, people look and see a military guy from the pentagon with a power point presentation and that's created a fair amount of problems around the world. i assure you, this is a very easy presentation to get through and i'll do this in about ten minutes but i do like to use a couple of images. as i was saying to my very good friend, there is no part of the government in which the images frankly are more evocative than in the world of development. and so what i'll do today...
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government especially the pentagon absolutely furious. at any suggestion that our karzai government and the millet and the afghan military and police are covertly working with the taliban is a diplomatic disaster but again this is one of those it's an open secret if you go to afghanistan and talk to any u.s. soldier they will tell you they know that the afghan their afghan army and police partners they know there's a secret agreement with the local taliban unit a report came out in may of last year by a man named dr jeffrey boyd in which nobody has picked up on where he lists all the sort of like the top ten peeves of u.s. soldiers in afghanistan and at the very top of the list is the fact that in the soldier said we're fighting and dying. and we're dying in part because our af. allies are feeding the taliban with information to facilitate the attacks and this does not bode well for the fact that these are the soldiers this is the government and these are the solutions we are going to turn the country over to when we start withdrawing our
government especially the pentagon absolutely furious. at any suggestion that our karzai government and the millet and the afghan military and police are covertly working with the taliban is a diplomatic disaster but again this is one of those it's an open secret if you go to afghanistan and talk to any u.s. soldier they will tell you they know that the afghan their afghan army and police partners they know there's a secret agreement with the local taliban unit a report came out in may of last...
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according to the pentagon, the number of aaattacks by militants in 2011 dropped the first time in five years. there has been undenial progress in pushing back the taliban but these gains are delicate and will be short lived without an afghan force that can assume more responsibility for security. i discussed these issues with lieutenant general walledwell --, caldwell, the former nato commander in charge of training the -- i should say lieutenant general caldwell has been ably replaced by lieutenant general daniel bolger. we've seen significant progress in the training and deployment of the afghan special forces units, which according to the pentagon, have made -- quote -- "impressive strides towards becoming an independent and effective force"-- unquote. we have also seen growing independence of the afghan regular units as of the end of march, 13 a.n.a. or kandax have been designated as being able to operate independently with advisors. in september of 2007 there was only one with that designation. we've gone from one unit to 13 in a rather short period of time. so we know there's pro
according to the pentagon, the number of aaattacks by militants in 2011 dropped the first time in five years. there has been undenial progress in pushing back the taliban but these gains are delicate and will be short lived without an afghan force that can assume more responsibility for security. i discussed these issues with lieutenant general walledwell --, caldwell, the former nato commander in charge of training the -- i should say lieutenant general caldwell has been ably replaced by...
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military, air force, the pentagon. host: cyber security is an issue that congress is interested in. we are joined by your fellow bloomberg contributor. what is the status? caller: congress is coming to some agreement on this. there are a few bills that are moving right now. the major one was introduced by joe lieberman from connecticut. senator reid said he plans to bring the bill to the floor as soon as possible. there is a competing bill that senate republicans, led by senator mccain and senator hutchison, have introduced. there are a lot of similarities within both of those bills. there are some fundamental differences that have divided senators. on the house side, there are several bills in the house that are floating around. for the most part, the house leadership is waiting to see what happens in the senate. host: mr. strohm, when you look at the issues we have been discussing, china and testing cyber attack capabilities, fbi director warns congress about terrorist attacking -- do the bills address those issues? caller: mike made some good points. for the first time, the u.s.
military, air force, the pentagon. host: cyber security is an issue that congress is interested in. we are joined by your fellow bloomberg contributor. what is the status? caller: congress is coming to some agreement on this. there are a few bills that are moving right now. the major one was introduced by joe lieberman from connecticut. senator reid said he plans to bring the bill to the floor as soon as possible. there is a competing bill that senate republicans, led by senator mccain and...
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from 2001 to 2010, the base pentagon budget, separate from the war effort, nearly doubled. in 2010, the united states spent more on defense than the next 17 countries combined. and more than half of the amount spent by those 17 countries was from seven nato countries and four other close allies, japan, south korea, australia and israel. last year admiral mullen argued that the flush defense budgets had allowed the pentagon to avoid making difficult choices. he said, and i quote, with the increasing defense budget which is almost double, it hasn't forced us to make the hard trades. it hasn't forced us to prioritize. it hasn't forced us to do the analysis. we can no longer afford to have taxpayer resources spent without doing the analysis, without insuring that every dollar is spent efficiently and infectively invested. as we figure out how to get our finances back on track even this committee where agreement is sometime difficult to come by, voted last year on amendment to emphasize the defense spending should be considered as we strive to bring the deficit under control and
from 2001 to 2010, the base pentagon budget, separate from the war effort, nearly doubled. in 2010, the united states spent more on defense than the next 17 countries combined. and more than half of the amount spent by those 17 countries was from seven nato countries and four other close allies, japan, south korea, australia and israel. last year admiral mullen argued that the flush defense budgets had allowed the pentagon to avoid making difficult choices. he said, and i quote, with the...
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they are gathering at the pentagon and will roll into d.c. at noon. >>> the police found the body of a man and his afternoon and two children. police suspect foul play. right now they are looking for the suspect. >>> there's a memorial in front of the building with pedro hernandez says he killed the 6-year-old patz. the body of the boy has never been found. >>> firefighters were able to contain the blaze, but are looking for hot spots now. the fire forced the florida highway patrol to close the state patrol for a few hours on friday. >>> tornado season is in full effect as kansas dealt with six twisters ripping through the state. crews are working to restore electricity, and it went out friday night because of the storms. one person was injured, and other than that it appears everybody else in the area is okay. officials are still assessing the full range of damage in the area. despite summer not officialy starting for a few weeks, temperatures are already here. a marching band had to stop early because some were suffering from heat exhaustio
they are gathering at the pentagon and will roll into d.c. at noon. >>> the police found the body of a man and his afternoon and two children. police suspect foul play. right now they are looking for the suspect. >>> there's a memorial in front of the building with pedro hernandez says he killed the 6-year-old patz. the body of the boy has never been found. >>> firefighters were able to contain the blaze, but are looking for hot spots now. the fire forced the florida...
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ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker and this is i mean i guess and say he's not within the pentagon right this is from the diplomatic arm and the other week when it was the koran burning incident he signaled that this should not mean that anybody should rush for an exit out of afghanistan because we saw to fight al qaeda here is pretty much i going the same state. i understand that people are tired of this war after a decade and. you know i'm tired too i've been deployed to afghanistan pakistan and iraq. going on seven years now since nine eleven so. believe me i understand what feeling tired means but these are the stakes. if we decide to we're tired of it that we don't want to do it anymore well the taleban. isn't that tired and badly damaged it would be able to regenerate and if the taliban puts the country over again. bizarrely sure i get of logic error right i mean i think it's pretty obvious that we're not going to rid afghanistan of the taliban you know when you make a statement like that it sounds like that's saying we have to stay forever. yeah i have a lot of respect for a
ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker and this is i mean i guess and say he's not within the pentagon right this is from the diplomatic arm and the other week when it was the koran burning incident he signaled that this should not mean that anybody should rush for an exit out of afghanistan because we saw to fight al qaeda here is pretty much i going the same state. i understand that people are tired of this war after a decade and. you know i'm tired too i've been deployed to afghanistan...